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Tuesday, 17 May 2016

A timeline of Bordurian history - Part 3: From the Ottoman conquest to the coronation of Constantine II

1374:
The
last Voivode of Szohôd,
Constantine
of
Peshod,
is murdered by Orhan Pasha and Borduria falls under
Ottoman control.

1375:
Ottoman troops arrest the five leading Bordurian nobles and execute
them. The country is incorporated into the Ottoman empire as the
Vilayet of Borduri.

1423: The Hospodar of Borduri, Mehmet Pasha, divides the vilayet into
three. He appoints local boyars as rulers, under his authority. These
boyars are Alexios Strabomytes of Peshod, Michael Katokas of Kardouk
and Wladimyr Pavlovic of Bytzy.

1424: An uprising in the west of Borduri is crushed and its leader,
Pavel Simeonov flees to the court of Sigismond of Luxembourg, King of
Hungary. His ally John Cantacuzene finds sanctuary at the court of
Dan II, Voivode of Wallachia.

1444: Bordurian troops fight on both sides in the revolt of
Skanderbeg.

1453:
Many Bordurian troops participate in the Siege of Constantinople as
part of the Ottoman army. The last known descendant of Manuel
I
Doukas
of
Szohôd
is
killed fighting on the Greek side.

1502:
Osman Pasha, Hospodar of Borduri orders the construction of new walls
around the city of Szohôd
and
fortifies the town of Taprume on the border with the Syldavia's
Zympathian region.

1537: The last member of the Katokas family of Kardouk, Irene,
marries Theodore Cantacuzene. Boyar of Szmak. Theodore becomes Boyar
of Kardouk.

1551: A Polish army besieges the northern city of Kotgrad but is
beaten back by a relieving army led by Istvan Pavlovic, Boyar of
Bytzy.

1697:
Following
the
Battle of Zenta in 1697 when
the Ottoman garrisons fled, the
last
Phanariot
Hospodar,
Demetrios Mavrocordatos is
deposed by
a group of leading Bordurian nobles.

1697-1705:
The leading families vie for power and occasional fighting breaks
out. Finally, in 1705, tired of war, the Duma (the assembly of nobles, landowners, guild leaders and town councillors) of Borduri elects one
of its leading members, Constantine Cantacuzene, Boyar of Kardouk as
the first Voivode of Szohôd
since
1374.

1706:
Constantine defeats an uprising by southern boyars and assumes the
title of “Autokrator
of the Bordurian Realms, Kyrios of the House of Cantacuzene, Voivode
of Szohôd and Boyar of Kardouk”.
He later assumes the further titles of King of Syldavia, Regent of Jerusalem
and Protector of the Faithful.

1708: Constantine abolishes the Duma, replacing it with a much more
malleable assembly of lords called the Samovar.

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